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vegetable ivoried adj. Sharpened by drink into a small, hard domestic ornament, generally found beside the water. vegetable ivory treed adj. Loosened by drink into a tropical household tree, with the sofa serving as its forest floor. vegetable jellied adj. Emboldened by drink to wobble into the kitchen and declare the cupboard sufficiently set. vegetable juiced adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a thick household beverage, requiring water and a quiet sofa. Nixxon was vegetable juiced on the sofa, moving slowly enough for the morning to pass unnoticed. vegetable lambed (/ˌvɛdʒtəbəl ˈlamd/) adj. Having drunk enough to mistake the pub garden for a legendary shrub bearing sheep on its branches. vegetable leathered adj. Having drunk more than enough to become as pliable, durable and faintly synthetic as an improvised bar stool. vegetable marrowed adj. You have drunk enough to become elongated in posture, pale in judgement and certain the greengrocer can help. Bralan went vegetable marrowed and leaned along the counter, requesting advice on his shape. vegetable mercuried adj. You are drunk and exuding a milky latex no sensible publican would permit near the optics. vegetable oiled adj. Of a drinker: slick enough to escape every attempt at a straightforward conversation, and useful chiefly near the fryer. vegetable renneted adj. Of a drinker who has curdled the conversation, leaving the whole round set and difficult to separate. vegetable sheeped adj. Describing a drinker who has become a fuzzy white mound at the edge of the beer garden. Dahl was vegetable sheeped beneath the picnic table, visible only as a pale mound. vegetable shorteninged adj. A drinker who has become solid, grease-resistant and chiefly suitable for improving a pie crust. vegetable souped adj. A drinker so far gone that every separate thought has dissolved into a warm, mixed serving. vegetable spaghettied adj. The state of being drunk and stretched into loose squash-like strands across the settle. vegetable sulfured adj. The condition of a drinker who has become a powdery yellow cloud, best kept away from open flames. vegetabled (/ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəld/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard any plant in the kitchen as a companion and possible supper. Teron got vegetabled and apologised to the parsley before sitting down.